Phoenix Maplewood Death inspires me like a dog inspires a rabbit

She needed to be alone, and so Tavi had abandoned Reek to the outskirts of the pack. There wasn't much time before she would be forced to leave as well, and Tavi was going to make the most of it. She didn't know where to go next, and wasn't going to think about it until she absolutely had to - instead, the wolf chose to take her time and look around the territory. Tavi lingered at her den for a few hours first, laying within it, patrolling the area just outside of it, even spending twenty minutes or so just relaxing with Mortimer. Maybe she could bring him along? But it had taken two wolves to put him there, and an unfortunate cave-in to wedge the moose skull in to the earth. It was just a skull — she'd find more. It was sad to look upon it now, but Tavi would recover.

There was a brief plan brewing in her mind to fill in the den, to leave no trace of herself. But instead, Tavi pulled herself away from the pleasant memories the den represented, and paced through the trees. She came upon the small field in which she had watched the stars, next. From her vantage point, Tavi couldn't see anything but the blue sky; the spring had made the boughs brighter, the maplewood glowed with green wherever the sun touched the leaves. With a sigh, Tavi lowered her head and began to pace along once more — and that was when she spotted the figure. There was no mistaking Saena, even though she had gained a bit of weight.

Seeing the way her sides curved outward made Tavi sick to her stomach. At the same time, she couldn't watch as Reek's world came to a crashing halt — this was all her fault, and she was determined to try and fix it, as naive as that may have been. The woman cleared her throat, but didn't feel it necessary to speak; her posture deflated though, and Tavi kept a careful eye on Saena in case the round woman chose to become physical. No longer did Tavi appear the proud Beta, knowing full well that she had failed in ways that even Ukko could not.